in san francisco, christian cap, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> president obama is expected to head back to washington from hawaii tonight. today, house speaker john boehner said it's up to the senate to pass legislation to avoid the steep cuts and tax hikes that are set to take effect january 2nd. some observers say it looks likely the u.s. will go over that cliff allowing lawmakers then to vote to lower taxes after they first go up. >> to make them look better? to appease voters? is that the reason? great. . >> meanwhile, another showdown is looming. the government will hit its federal debt limit on new year's eve and could default unless congress passes legislation to permit more borrowing. >>> the passage of proposition 30 gave governor brown the extra money he wanted for california schools. now he's working on a proposal to differencevy up the funds. eats work -- divvy up the funds. >> he wants to return more accountability, authority and decision-making down to local school districts because teachers, administrators and parents have a better sense of what their local priority are than

. >> are so much coverage continues with christian cap in.live in richmond where trees are down and 2000 pg&e customers are without power. christian? >> reporter: we are here at the san rafael bridge. some of the goodbyes. keep both hands on the wheel. this is the approach to the bridge. you can see the rain coming down. if you look carefully, you see it coming through in sheets. that gives you a sense of how powerful the wind is blowing. those winds blowing traffic as they cross those bridges. we have some video of that big rig accident that microsoft and about that we shot about an hour or so of gold. it was still dark. it might be hard to see because the conditions were so wet. the top of the driver of a foot over this morning. he's doing well. he said it was definitely the win. his advice for other truck drivers out there. certainly, take it easy. that accident shut down eastbound traffic for about a half-hour. it is not down to about one lane. chp guiding people through the area. we did talk with a chp officer who had goodbyes for anybod

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